Cake Pops from Queen’s Confections

Cake pops, they are everywhere. Everyone is making them. You love them. These little balls that are a mix of cake and candy. Seemingly like the perfect food that are just irresistible. Every party that I have been too this year, there they were, cake balls. Sometimes on sticks, some times not. I love these little balls of heaven.

When a friend of mine started a business and started to post pictures of her treats, my mouth started to water. Then she said vegan, and I was drooling, then gluten free and there was puddle. As if that was not good enough she became my favorite person in the world when she said that she would send me a sample! How did I get so lucky?

There was then a transformation in me. I became like a dog. I waited by the door everyday for the mail to arrive. Getting excited to see the lady with a blue uniform come up on my porch. They came in the mail on Friday. I almost hugged the mail lady!

I opened my package and there were the most beautiful cake pops that I have ever seen. Individually wrapped and packed so carefully that they made the journey and to my door step in perfect condition.

This was the first one that I tried. I took a bite into it and my eyes rolled. Oh My God! These were just perfection on a stick.

These are a Lemon Lime cake pop! Can you just imagine? A grown up flavor. It is a wonderful combination of flavor and texture. Not to sweet. I have never had a cake pop like this. I am telling you, if there had more, my family would not have found me for days, because I would be hording them under the stairs. But I did share with my family. My son, who loves anything that is lemon, wanted me to order a dozen. If he hadn’t already talked to the big man in red, I think these would have made his list!

My daughter, the child whose second word was chocolate (first was shoes), what did she think? She gave them a thumbs up! She was so happy that there was a treat that she could share with my father’s wife who is on a very restricted diet. “Mommy we GOT to get her these for Christmas!!” But then she noticed in the box, there were chocolate ones as well.

Is your mouth watering? It should be! There is white cake inside flavored with orange oil. The coating, dark chocolate! Orange and dark chocolate, I took one bite and my knees when weak. These are not your average birthday party cake pop!

I could go on and on, but there is one left that is just calling my name! If you are looking for gorgeous gourmet candies that will make your knee’s go weak, then head over to Queen’s Confections. You will be so glad you did!

June 4th

BWAHHHHHH! ( best attempt at an evil laugh) The vegan cupcakes were a huge hit. No one knew that they were anything different then plain old cupcakes. So there ( I am sticking out my tounge and blowing raspberries) to everyone who ever said that vegan cooking and baking is gross. Also the “chocolate cupcakes” were in fact not chocolate, they were carob! More evil laughing!!!

In general they day was awesome. The kids had some friends over, and they are the best kids I know, so it was fun. I had picked up some wooded pencil boxes and some acrylic paint, and we did them up. The little girl says to me that she loves coming to our house because I always have something fun for them to do. That makes me feel good, and a little less nuts. I swear other people think I am crazy, but it is cool when kids like me.

After they left the kids took a nice long nap. Someone forgot to tell Gryffan that you sleep in when there is no school. He was up at 5:30! OUCH! I need to get him a clock for in his room. I had made him black out curtains, but the down side is that it is always dark in his room so he has no sense of time. Tomorrow he will have my stop watch and he has very strong instructions NOT to get out of bed before 8. I have been waitting 9 months for this, I want to sleep till 9 gosh darn it.

Lexy had dance today and they learned a new routine. They are going to be dancing at this thing in the park, called picnic in the park. Kind of self explanitory. I got to peak in and watch her dance to FootLoose. She is tons of fun to watch, she can really shake it.

Then Gryffan had a make up game, which at the end of was the end of season party because the coach will not be there on Saturday. The season really went fast. Gryffan played goalie the first quarter, after very explicit instructions not to play goalie from me. But he stopped the ball both times it came near him. So it wasn’t to bad. Second quarter he was up front and he did awesome. People who have watched him play all season would think that I am lying, but he actually ran after the ball! He moved and helped out his team mate, and he took a shot on goal that hit off the posts. It was fun to watch. Third quarter he was out, and fourth quarter, nothing came near him. I think it was a really good season.

Gryffan checking out his trophy from this season

Tim is at his motorcycle saftey class tonight. Hopefully he will pass wonderfully and we will be able to go for a ride. It has been forever since I was on the back of a bike.

 

Running tally-

Gryffan – tv- 45 minutes to watch Mythbusters – 30 minutes of Diji- Finished one book and is half way done with the next        TOTAL 45minutes tv/1 hr diji

Lexy – tv – 45 minutes to watch Mythbusters  TOTAL 3hrs 15minutes

Constance – diet/yes – exercise/no

December 5th

I baked cookies all day. I started off with just making one batch, but they were easy and tasted good, I decided to make a double batch and donate them to the wrestling team on Sunday. The boosters use the money they make from the concession stand to pay four tournaments and end of the year gifts for the kids. Last year they paid for 2 tournaments, and this year I am hoping they will pay for more. We have only 3 away matches this year so that means they need lots for the stand. Hopefully these cookies can help.

O Christams Tree

 Back to huge pictures again. I think it is a bug in WordPress since they just updated the site, so bear with them.

Anywho, you want to know a secret about those cookies? Oh course they are vegan, but guess the secret ingredient! TOFU! Why did I use tofu in cookies? Well I was surfing blogs yesterday and saw some really sweet sugar cookies, and thought that would be fun with Lexy. I set out to find a vegan recipe, but almost all of them want you to use an egg replacer, and I think that stuff is gross. Makes me want to take out my tongue and clean it off with sand paper, gross. Eventually I found a recipe on one of those mass recipe sites that did not have that in them, it used mori-nu tofu which is the tofu that is not water packed. What luck, I picked up a pack the last time I was in Bloomsburg. I was planning on making chocolate pudding for the kids, so I had the debate, pudding or cookies and cookies won! And you can not make sugar cookies with out royal icing to decorate them. Did you know that royal icing is made with eggs? I did not. And you do not cook it. Talk about ewww. Since I did not want to get everyone sick, I found a vegan version of the shiny stuff. But then I came to my next dilemma, I was all out of my soy milk, I had no more rice milk, the only thing that I had left was hemp milk. The hemp milk purchase was a impulse buy, I really wanted to try it, but it was so expensive. We saw it on sale and I picked it up about 2 months ago. Don’t worry it is the shelf stable kind. Now my problem is this, Tim is subject to random drug testing at work, and I really did not want to have him fail because of cookies. I went searching the companies website and found out that there is no THC in hemp milk so there is no way of failing a drug test.

So tell me, am I totally bad for making some delicious cookies that are made with tofu and hemp milk and pawning them off on small town, sport minded, omin’s with out a clue? (Insert Evil Laugh!)